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    The Ministry of Stories/Monster supplies

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    This is so great. Dave Eggers started a shop in San Francisco called the Pirate Store, aka 826 Valencia. It stocked all kinds of piratical goods - marvellous enough it itself. But! if you went through to the back of the shop, you found young people writing stories, being shown how to write stories, receiving one-on-one help from grown-up writers who volunteered their time. (Don't know why I'm using the past tense - it's still very much going and growing - theyre in other US cities too now).

    Now there's an equivalent in London. Started with Eggers's blessing and led by Nick Hornby, The Ministry of Stories is in Hoxton High Street. You go through Hoxton Street Monster Supplies - which, as per the pictures above, stocks everything a monster might require - and find the secret entrance to the Ministry of Stories itself. Children aged 8-18 can drop in to the writing sessions on Thursday afternoons from 3.30-6.30, or on Saturday mornings from 10am-12pm, and get help writing anything from a book to a poem to a CV. Completely genius idea. Teachers can also book in their class for a visit. You can volunteer to be part of it right here (I am). Comprehensive, detailed info on their site. 
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    • 10 September 2011
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